We are a photography forum. We want to limit image uploads to 1.2 MB but avoid any kind of recompression when the image complies with that limit. We would prefer that if the images is bigger, the user is adviced and don’t let him upload it. But I have not found how to do that. When someones uplo…

I think you’d need a plugin to override those behaviors. Or have them upload elsewhere and link. But I think there is a plugin or theme component that allows uploading images elsewhere like minio. Something like that might be what you want. See Azure Blob Storage Plugin and Video Upload to YouTub…

mmm… we want the images in our server as we have no control of other sites where images can be lost. I have assumed we are not going to be able to completly disable image processing. We are glad just if the the system don’t touch images that comply to limits (1.2 MB in file size and 2048 pixels in…

Have you edited the site settings related to maximum image size, width and height? That should be your first port of call..

Sorry for the delay. I have not realized of the answer. Yes, as I have explained previously, we have stablished a limit of 1.2 MB and a resolution limit of 4 MP. When the image does not comply to that limit, the system compresses it strongly, sometime with mad results as 600 pixels or 1000 pixels …

[image] ariznaf: we have stablished a limit of 1.2 MB You need to tweak the composer media optimization image bytes optimization threshold to disable the client size optimization of images below that size. The default applies to images above 500Kb, so you want to increase that setting to 1.2M…

I think so, but writing copy isn’t my forte. Currently it’s Minimum image file size to trigger client-side optimization Maybe Minimum image file size to trigger resize / compression before upload ?

Maybe Images larger than this will be resized and compressed by the client

How to avoid any kind of recompression on images?

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) February 14, 2022, 8:22pm 7

Should we improve the description of these site settings to make it clearer how things work?

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How to avoid any kind of recompression on images?

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